[pkg-db-devel] Bug#773806: libdb5.3-java: Pre-installation script fails

[Guillem Jover]

Hi!

On Tue, 2014-12-30 at 18:42:42 +0100, Ondřej Surý wrote:
> JFTR This is caused by older dpkg (<< 1.17.22) that didn't set
> ${misc:Pre-Depends} to >= 1.17.14.

dpkg never sets misc:Pre-Depends, that's debhelper, so this fix
is not correct.

> On Tue, Dec 30, 2014, at 15:50, Ondřej Surý wrote:
> > and the ${misc:Pre-Depends} was fixed in 1.17.22:
> > 
> > dpkg (1.17.22) unstable; urgency=low
> > [...]
> >   * Bump minimal version for dir_to_symlink and symlink_to_dir commands
> >     to 1.17.14 in dpkg-maintscript-helper(1) man page. Closes: #769843
> > 
> > So libdb5.3-java just needs binNMU with dpkg 1.17.22.

Nope, as the changelog says, that was just a man page update. The fix
you are looking for is:

,---
debhelper (9.20141221) unstable; urgency=medium

  [ Niels Thykier ]
  * dh_installdeb: Raise required dpkg version for dir_to_symlink to
    1.17.13 (see #769843, msg #10).  Thanks to Guillem Jover.
…

  [ Axel Beckert ]
  * dh_installdeb: Raise required dpkg version for symlink_to_dir to
    1.17.14. It is needed in case of relative symlinks. (Closes: #770245)

 -- Niels Thykier <niels at thykier.net>  Sun, 21 Dec 2014 21:21:18 +0100
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Thanks,
Guillem